Keep promise to set aside SILO money for high school

6:20 PM,
Sep. 21, 2012

Jessi Williams

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Jessi Williams
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The Iowa City Community School District needs to continue saving the SILO money set aside for a new comprehensive high school until the comprehensive facility plan is done and the consultants have weighed in.

Yes, I'm saying this as a North Corridor parent, which - according to the information "out there" - makes me a whiny, resource-sucking human being that is only happy with the very best for my children while students on the east-side of the district languish in subpar crumbling schools.

Never mind the fact that my oldest daughter is a first-grader at Penn Elementary, a lovely school that is ...